Headlight for vehicles.



No. 853,247 PATENTBD MAY 14, 1907.

A. LE BLANG;

HEADLIGHT FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2a, 1906.

111 (A r /t0 a: 42 122L070 AR'LHUR LE BLANC, OF l/VORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEADLIGHT FOFiiVEHlCLES.

Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed June 23, 1906. Serial No. 32 31313.

To all whom, it may concern: L

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Ln Burns, a citizen of -the United States, residing at .Worc-cster, in the county 01 Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Headlight tor Vehicles, of which.

the following is a specification. 1

As at present constructed,velucles oi substantially all kinds are provided with headlamp or pair of swinging lamps to be oper.

lights fixed in stationary position so that when curves are rounded the light is thrown to one side of the track or road and thus where it is most needed, it is least available. This results in numerous accidents, and is a constant menace to the public.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a movable head-light and means for turning it with the steering wheels so that it will follow the curve and throw the light into a position such that the road or track can be seen at all times during the rounding of the curve, thereby affording protection to the public.

The invention comprises means for accomplishing, this result, on cars, automobiles, and other vehicles;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings which. illustrate two forms in which the invention may be embodied, and in which, I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automobile provided with a form of 'my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the front portion thereof, and Fig. 3 is a detail plan view partly in section on an enlarged scale of a part of the lamp operating mechanism.

For the purpose of adapting a swinging ated by the motion of the stub axles of'an automobile in a convenient and simple manner and in such a way that the lamp may if desired beqswung around at a more rapid rate'than the wheels turn, whereby the light will he directed along the roadway in advance of the turn of the vehicle itself, I

have shown the invention as embodied in a" construction in whch the-lamp turning mech-:

"which supports an oscillatable rod B carrying a frame 0 for supporting a head-light D.-

or arms E, one on each side extending from a ring E fixed to the rod. These projec tions are controlled by connections F on theform of chains, cables, or the like, from a bar G which extends across in front'of the axle and joins the stub axle levers H so as to move with them at-all times.

The cramping of the wheels in orderto turn the vehicle, of y course, results in shifting the bar G- longrtudinally and this exerts a pull on one of each pair of connections F to turn the rods and consequently the two head-lights Din proportion to the amount of turning of the stubs. Consequently, the lights will be thrown forward at an angle as the machine rounds a curve. f

It will, of course, be'understood that the same principle can be applied to other kinds of vehicles, and to the same vehicles, in other ways in accordance with the particular munb'er and construction of head-lights which it is desired to employ, and that other 1nodiiica tions in the construction can be made by any person skilled in the art within the scope of the invention as expressed'in the claims.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I 1. In a vehicle, the combination of a pair of stub-axles, a bar connecting said axles andadapted to operate/parallel with theiraxes,

two pairs of flexible connections secured to said bar, a pair of upright rods oscillatably mounted on the vehicle, each having two arms projecting therefrom, both arms on each rod being secured to said flexible connections of one pair, and means on said rods forsup orting head lights, whereby the turning of t he wheels will cause the head-lights to turn therewith.

2. In a vehicle, the combination of a pair of stub axles," azlongitudinally. reci rocable bar connecting said axles and movab e therewith, two pairs-of flexible connections se-' cured to said bar near opposite ends thereof 1 and at a distance apart, a pair of upright rods.

oscillatably mounted on the vehicle each having two arms projecting therefrom, both arms on each rod belng secured to the'ilexible confor su porting .head-lightsfi nections of one pair, and means on said rods n a vehicle having stub axles, the coin bination fi a-bar connecting said axles and This rod is provided with'a pair of projections. adapted'to reciprocate longitudinally as said I .x I .I Y J. 3 0 axles turn, :11 pair of; flexlble connectlons' In testnnony whereof I have hereunto set secured to said bar, an 11 right rod oscflmy hand,1n the presence of two subscribing latably mounted on'the ve cle and having witnesses. v two arriis projecting therefrom at untangle; ARTHUR LE BLANU.

5 the ends of'each arm being connected with Witnesses:

one of-s'aid flexible connections, and means ALBER'LE. FAY,

- "'onthe 'rod for snppopting a headdight': f LOUIS W. SQUTHGATE'. 

